{"id":197596,"date":"2025-09-18T01:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T01:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/197596\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T01:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T01:41:09","slug":"metro-notes-hughes-panarin-scheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/197596\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro Notes: Hughes, Panarin, Scheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By tomorrow, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/2025\/08\/devils-luke-hughes-at-an-impasse-regarding-contract-length.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">negotiation stalemate<\/a> between the New Jersey Devils and defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/hughelu01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-17_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Luke Hughes<\/a> will begin eating into the blueliner\u2019s training camp availability.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Peter_Baugh\/status\/1968417082791305277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">According to Peter Baugh of The Athletic<\/a>, although both sides continue to discuss terms, no deal is anticipated before the Devils\u2019 first practice tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>There haven\u2019t been any meaningful updates regarding the extension this month. The last one came in late August, indicating that Hughes is prioritizing a five-year contract, while New Jersey wants a two-year or eight-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>A five-year contract would walk Hughes into unrestricted free agency at the end of the deal, the same time his brother Jack becomes an unrestricted free agent. Much has been made of the Hughes brothers\u2019 stated desire to play together someday, and the youngest one has become rigid in his contractual demands.<\/p>\n<p>Other notes from the Metropolitan Division:<\/p>\n<p>The New York Rangers have one of the highest-profile pending unrestricted free agents for next summer in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/panarar01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-17_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Artemi Panarin<\/a>. Given that he\u2019s eligible for an extension and the focal point of the Rangers\u2019 offense, hypothetical extension negotiations were a hot-button topic at today\u2019s media availability with General Manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/drurych01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.prohockeyrumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-09-17_hr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chris Drury<\/a>. Unfortunately, to keep the negotiations out of the spotlight, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Peter_Baugh\/status\/1968403425328075158\" rel=\"nofollow\">Baugh reported<\/a> that Drury refused to speak on negotiations in any meaningful way.<br \/>\nMoving back to New Jersey, the Devils will no longer have all four players <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prohockeyrumors.com\/2025\/09\/devils-sign-kevin-rooney-luke-glendening-two-others-to-ptos.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recently signed<\/a> to professional tryout contracts at training camp. Earlier today, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/InStilettos_NHL\/status\/1968321225018499281\" rel=\"nofollow\">Kristy Flannery of The Hockey News reported<\/a> that netminder <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eliteprospects.com\/player\/272573\/adam-scheel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Adam Scheel<\/a> won\u2019t participate in New Jersey\u2019s training camp, claiming that he\u2019s taken a separate opportunity elsewhere. There have been no reports indicating where Scheel has signed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By tomorrow, the negotiation stalemate between the New Jersey Devils and defenseman Luke Hughes will begin eating into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5109],"tags":[31495,3039,337,201,5,1769,576,151,35,5185,5184,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-197596","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-jersey-devils","8":"tag-adam-scheel","9":"tag-artemi-panarin","10":"tag-chris-drury","11":"tag-devils","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-luke-hughes","14":"tag-new-jersey","15":"tag-new-jersey-devils","16":"tag-new-york-rangers","17":"tag-newjersey","18":"tag-newjerseydevils","19":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115222759611010250","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}